Word Association #40

South Atlantic League

North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)

formed in 1949 as a bulwark of the non-Communist World.
Still functioning, but membership no longer requires geographical proximity to the North Atlantic. Its Communist counterpart was the Warsaw Pact, which, despite the name was run from Moscow; the Warsaw Pact disbanded after 1991.

CENTO

an unlikely Cold War alliance among Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey,
and Britain, in the 1950s-60s The U. S. was
favorable to it, but did not
formally become a member.
"Regime-changes" in later decades made it impossible.

// centurion //

Jesus Heals the Centurion's Slave*:
in Bible. N. T.#
Luke 7; 1-6
Matthew 8: 5-10

#clicking on this Christian scripture evokes a Taoist scripture: Lao Tzu / Tao Teh Ching. I didn't know Touchstones was so ecumenical-minded.

*traditional translations
(mis)translate this as "servant".

Emancipation Proclamation

*Brooks Adams's The Emancipation of Massachusetts

*grandson of President John Quincy Adams; brother of writer Henry Adams

Mel Brooks

Robert A. Brooks 1920--1976
Short term instructor in
Classics, Harvard, 1940s--50s; actor; Smithsonian executive; author* of a
"classic "classical article on
Vergil's use of the "Golden Bough" mythical theme.

*Knew author.

Robert the Bruce

Robert le Diable / Robert the Devil
medieval war lord

Diablo Cody

// Cody //

"Buffalo Bill"
legal name: William Cody
U. S. impresario; has been biographized by himself, Eleanor Coerr, John Burke et al., and a not too complimentary obituary of him
is included in an e e cummings poem

Buffalo Gals

Al Gore, Sr.* (D TN)
Guest fiddler on a 1950s
TV Quiz show: he played, but did not sing,
Buffalo Gals, (15) which the contestant was to identify. She did.

*Father of Al Gore (D, TN), author, vice president
of the U. S.
1993--2001

Edward Gorey

Edward "Whitey" Ford
New York Yankees, Hall of Fame pitcher

Whitey Bulger notorious gangster

William M. "Billy" Bulger
Massachusetts politician; later President of University of Massachusetts; brother
of (19); author of While the Music Lasts: my Life in Politics friend of academic exec John R. Silber

William IV (d.1837)
British monarch; brother of George IV; uncle of Victoria

Will.I.Am, one of the peas (black-eyed ones)

"Others may have A WILL, but
ANNE hath a WAY!"
saying attributed to a fictional William Shakespeare by James Joyce

Will in the World

George Will
writer, conservative columnist

George McGovern

Richard M. Nixon incumbent opponent of (27) in 1972; he won the
election (despite my vote and my native stateʻs vote against him!), but was unable to serve a full 2nd term: being under pressure of a prospective impeachment, he resigned in 08/74.

Richard the Lion-Hearted

William the Lion
Medieval Scottish king

Cowardly Lion

Bert Lahr the (31) of The Wizard of Oz classic movie version (1939),
and his friends "The Scarecrow" (Ray Bolger), the "Tin Woodman" (Jack Haley) and "Dorothy" (Judy Garland)

Oscar the Grouch
a disgruntled colleague of
(33) in the Sesame Street
series; one of the "Street Gang" of Michael Davisʻs work.

Groucho Marx

// Groucho //
// Marx//

Daniel Cohn-Bendit
aka "Dany le Rouge"
German*-French activist#,
writer, 1960s e q s

*born in Germany of French parents, he became famous as a student in France, but writes in German.

#Asked what "tendency" of Marxism he belonged to, he replied "The Groucho tendency".

Daniel Radcliffe

Grace Norwich
author of Daniel Radcliffe: No Ordinary Wizard and of
No. 3: Helen Keller and
No. 9: John F. Kennedy

The Ladies of Grace Adieu

"Adieux: a Farewell to
(Jean-Paul) Sartre" by Simone de Beauvoir

good-bye to all that

"The White Goddess"
Robert Gravesʻs most famous work (with the possible exception of 41). He also wrote the novel "Homerʻs Daughter" and translated
Lucanʻs Bellum Civile.

Bulgakokvʻs Byelogvardetz / The White Guard,
Monsarratʻs The White Rajah, and Melvilleʻs The Whiteness of the Whale
(chapter in Moby Dick)

White Russian

// Russian //

Boris Yeltsin Siberian-born Russian; -- he wasnʻt a "White" - - had a Communist upbringing.
Became second president of the Post-Soviet Russia. Predecessor: Mikhail Gorbachev; successor: Vladimir Putin

Boris and Natasha

Boris Vassilievich Spassky


World chess champion, 1969--1972; he won the title from Tigran Petrosian and lost it to Bobby Fischer

The 64 Square Looking Glass

"The $64,000 Question"
TV quiz show of the 1950s; expanded from radioʻs "$64 Question" of the 1940s.

The Riddler

Elmer Riddle (p) and Johnny Riddle (c)
"Brother Battery" of
1940s baseball, perhaps the
2nd or 3rd most famous of such. (The most famous pitcher-catcher-brother pairs were Wes and Rick Ferrell, 1930s, and Mort and
Walker Cooper, 1940s).

Tom Marvolo Riddle

James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa
controversial Labor leader ,1960s: Teamsters Union;
he disappeared in the next decade, and is believed to be
a murder victim.

Jimmy Carter

William Howard Taft,* Herbert Hoover, and George H. W. Bush:
With (55), they were the one-term presidents of the
20th century. Since 1953, presidents have tended to think that theyʻre entitled to TWO terms: no more and no LESS.

*Taft: the only incumbent president who failed to finish first OR second (1912).

Salt water taffy

Taft "Taffy" Wright
old time outfielder, CHicago
White Sox. He won a batting championship in the 1930s, by
being the only one with enough at-bats to qualify for it.
The rules were changed,and the championship was awarded to Jimmy Foxx.

Wright Brothers

Jay Wright
college basketball coach,
Villanova; recently won his 400th career game.

John Jay

Jay Johnstone
short term ML baseball player; author:
Baseball/Humor

Toronto Blue Jays

Philadelphia Blue Jays
briefly the Philadelphia
Phillies were so named in
the nineteen forties: They were also said to have
changed the name Phillies to Phils
about that time:

Philadelphia Athletics
American League team up into the 1950s,
managed most of that time by owner
Connie Mack; he was replaced
briefly by Eddie Joost, and then
the franchise moved to Kansas City,
and later to Oakland.

Philadelphia Freedom

Max Freedom Long
1891 - - 1971

California (?)-born teacher
researcher, esotericist, author, (mostly of non-fiction)
worked mainly in Hawaiʻi.

Mad Max

" Mad CALL I it, for -- to DEFINE true madness (!?) --
What is it but to be nothing else BUT mad!"
-- Poloniusʻs classic declining to define "madness" in Hamlet, by William Shakespeare*

*or, for all I know, by Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford.

The Madness of King George

Its a Mad,, Mad, Mad, Mad World (screenplay)
One of the two
best (i m o)American comedy films, the other being Putney Swope by Robert Downey Sr.

As the World Turns

John Dickson Carr's
Death Turns the tables

Death Becomes Her

Two very different tries at Psychology:

OʻNeillʻs "Mourning Becomes Electra" and Allportʻs* just plain "Becoming"

*Gordon Allport 1897-- 1967

*Met author.

Morning Glory

Glory Road
a fiction by Robert Heinlein* and
a non-fiction by Bruce Catton

*I haven't read the Heinlein item; it
is prose-zoomably not one of his best.
but Catton's Civil War episode in the
"Army of the Potomac" Series
IS one of his best.

Road to Perdition

"Follow the Yellow Brick Road"
not-quite-classic
song of "The Wizard of Oz" movie, 1939,
but it was overshadowed by
"Over the Rainbow"

The Yellow Peril

Kaiser Wilhelm II
- - said to be the originator of the phrase "Gelbe Gefahr / Yellow Peril".
Oh well, what can you expect from a guy whose idea of how to defend Austria against Serbia is to attack Belgium and France!?

Kaiser roll

Roll call of the States
- - a solemn call* for chairmen of delegations to
declare their stateʻs vote for
a presidential candidate in the Republiccan and Democratic conventions, of old - - and, for all I know still in this century,
though it now lacks the
suspense of the old conventions.

*Or as convention chairman Joe Martin (R, MA) in the 1940s-50s, put it:
"Proceed with the BALLOTINʻ!"

How the States got their Shapes

"Shape-up": The selection of
the dayʻs workers as longshoremen;
a crucial element in the classic film On the Waterfront (1954) directed by Elia Kazan, based on a Budd Schulberg play.

Body for Life

Shakespeareʻs Bawdy
- - punning* title by language maven Eric Partridge

*playing on body (87)/bawdy

Gaudy Night

Hildegarde Dolsonʻs
The Great Oildorado, the Gaudy and Turbulent years of the first Oil Rush: Pennsylvania, 1859-1880

Eldorado

. . ." 'Ride. boldly ride.'
The shade replied,
'If you seek for Eldorado.' "
Edgar Allan Poe

Boldly go where no man has gone before

Space - the final frontier

The Turner Thesis
(of Frederick Jackson Turner)
concerning the American frontier

"Listen carefully, hereʻs my thesis:
Peace in the world, or the world in pieces!"

pieces of eight

// pieces //

Trois Coups: Pieces a Lire 040397
/*Striking, three Times: Plays# to Read

*Literal translation of the title; not guaranteeing that there is any English edition - - probably not,
and I have no idea what the title's final "Word": "040397" is there for.

# On 2nd thought, Iʻm not sure that "pieces" does mean "plays" here: This authorʻs
other works that are known to LT are all on cuisine. No reviews, and no LT "mentions" except for this post.

Five Easy Pieces

Les Danielsʻs "Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the Worldʻs Greatest Comics"

The Amazing Spiderman

Chabonʻs The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Henry Clay

Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (D, WA)
Norwegian-American politician; senator 1970s--80s

Evelyn Waugh's Scoop.

John C Waugh
historian, esp. on pre- and post- Civil War

John Gaston "Johnny" Peacock
- -North Carolina-born pro baseball catcher, Cincinnati Reds System, then Boston Red Sox, 1930s--40s. Peacock was one of the few players of the pre-Free Agency Era who was
declared a free agent by the Commissioner of Baseball.

Gaston.
The main antagonist in Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

Gaston County, NC (just up the road from me)

The Battle of Kingʻs Mountain,*
October, 1780

*Took place in or near (111).
Our old friend Pat Patterson had a well preserved hardcover of Lyman Draperʻs "Kings Mountain and its Heroes". Since she left Hawaii for Lake Tahoe, the book has shown up in a
thrift shopʻs surprisingly good collection.

Major Patrick Ferguson

Neil Ferguson
conservative-leaning non-fiction author

Neil Degrasse Tyson

"bluetyson"
- - Australian LT member;
has listed over 47,000 books

Mike Higgins
ML baseball player (3b):
Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers; *manager: Boston Red Sox; executive: Red Sox

*In over 1,400 games managed, he was within 2 losses of having an exactly = number of wins and losses.
His 2 stints as manager were non-consecutive, but, unlike Grover Cleveland in
the presidency, he is still counted as only one manager.

Professor Higgins

Literary professors:
C. Bronteʻs The Professor
and Catherʻs "The Professorʻs House".

The Professor and Mary Ann

Grayson Boucher

Anthony Boucher
writer of and on mysteries

Anthony Bourdain adventurous chef

John Anthony
stage name: "Mr. Anthony"
host of an early "reality"* show on radio, 1930s--40s.

*I donʻt think the adjective "reality" for shows had been
invented yet, and there was hardly anything else in the same category; they may have called it an "advice" show.

Mad Anthony Wayne

Marc Antony, Roman politician, orator*
Roman name: Marcus Antonius
a co-hero, with Marcus Brutus of Shakespeareʻs
Julius Caesar

*We have only Plutarchʻs and thence Shakespeareʻs word for it that Marc was a great orator. Among the Romans of that time, it was his grandfather, also named
Marcus Antonius, who had the
great reputation as an orator.

Mark Clark WWII General

Mamo Clark Rawley
Hawaiʻi-born actress;*
author of "Except their Sun"
illlus. by Mazzotti (1994);
relative of Leialoha Apo Perkins and Princess Abigail Kawananakoa

*She played the heroine of the 1936 Mutiny on the Bounty

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"Iz" Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, late Hawaiian singer, big man with a lovely voice

City and County of Honolulu. Waiʻanae,Oahu, HI Satellite City Hall:
has a sculpture (bust) depicting 131.

< > > > >

wiki wiki

Wikipedia
search engine, seemingly
of hybrid etymology: starts out Hawaiian*
and ends up Greek*. It has evoked much
discussion of WHO contributes to it
(also, "how?", and "why?")

*wiki wiki = "quickly" in Hawaiian;
paideia - "education" in Greek

Edward Snowdon

"The Knight of Snowdon"
disguise persona of a medieval Scottish king
in Walter Scottʻs The Lady of the Lake

Lord Snowdon

Louis E. Lord
classicist; author of Aristophanes: his Plays and his Influence; editor of
Ciceroʻs Orations against Catiline in the Loeb Classical Lilbrary series

Louis XIV

Louis Auchincloss
Northeastern U. S. novelist;
author of The Rector of Justin

Louis Jourdan

Joe Louis*
American heavyweight boxing champion, 1930s--40s; he lost only to Max Schmeling whom he beat in a re-match, and to Rocky Marciano in a non-title bout.

*original name: Joseph Barrow

Mean Joe Greene

Joe McCarthy
outstanding baseball manager.
1920s-- early 1950s,

New York Yankees, and (briefly)
Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox
His teams won 8 American League
pennants, and one National League

Charlie McCarthy

Joseph R. McCarthy (R, WI)
World war II veteran,U. S. right-wing senator, 1940s--50s (an era and an "-ism" were named after him because of his
controversial crusade after alleged Communists in
U. S. government.)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph OʻMahoney D, WY

Massachusetts-born* Wyoming congressional representative; began his career as a New Deal politician; was elected again
during the Eisenhower era. (Not sure if his non-consecutive terms make him
counted as two different representatives, a la Grover Clevelandʻs not just having two presidencies but BEING two presidents.)

*graduated from the same high school as rolandperkins: Cambridge High and Latin (now Cambridge Rindge and Latin)

Oh, Henry!

assuming that
Oh" of 150 plays on the "Oʻ "
of "OʻMahoney" (149)

O Sole Mio* / "My Sun"#
traditional Neapolitan song

*Iʻve read that the "O" of O Sole Mio" is not the exclamation "O/ oh" but the Neapolitan dialect definite article, so that
the standard Italian title would be "IL mio sole".

#but there isnʻt any English translation that I know of.

Soul Brothers

Nikolai Gogolʻs "Dead Souls"
great 19th c. Russian novel

Dead Poet's Society

"The Society on the Stanislaw"
Bret Harte's satirical poem on
an early Northern California
natural history society

Thomas Hart Benton

George Benton
Hawaiʻi author, late 20th c.; did Hawaiʻi Creole (aka "Pidgin")
translations of Shakespeare* and Moliere.*

*Creole titles were: ʻTwelf Nite, or Whatevah" and
"Da Buggah Scapin"

The Madness of King George

"In the old colonial days, When we lived under
the king*,
Lived a miller, and a weaver,
and a lilttle tay-LOR:
Three jolly rogues of Lynn"

*King George III (158) is referred to.

The Miller's Tale

Jonathan Swift's Tale of a Tub

Gardnerʻs
"Case of the Smoking Chimney"

Smoking Gun

Christopher Buckleyʻs
Thank you for Smoking
(a novel)

William F. Buckley

William Rose Benet
poet, anthologist; edited The Readers Encyclopeida, and co-edited with Conrad Aiken: An Anthology of Famous English and American Poetry; wrote The Dust which is God etc.;
brother of the (better known) poet
Stephen Vincent Benet

Rose Kennedy

Billy Rose
U.S. impresario, columnist
1930s--1960s

Billie Holliday

Judy Holliday
U. S. film actress, 1950--70s

Judy Garland

Garland Roark
novelist, non-fiction writer;
wrote The Wake of the Red Witch and *"The Coin of Contraband. . ."

*a non-fiction on the U. S. Dept. of Customs

Howard Roark

Roark Bradford
U. S. writer, folklorist, 1920s--40s; author of "Ole King David and the Philistine Boys"* and John Henry#

*is a Wish List item in rolandperkinsʻs LT collections

# is in the Legacy Libraries of both Ralph Ellison and Carl Sandburg

Bradford Exchange

Makaha Surfside EXCHANGE TABLE, Waiʻanae HI

Leave something/ take something. But inactive the past few weeks. I never took much from it, but probably took more than I contributed to it.

exchange rate

Tom Keneallyʻs*
Cut Rate Kingdom

*Met author.

Tom, Tom the Piper's Son

"Robbin' Hood, to pay the Piper, or:
Poor Richard the Lion-Hearted and his
electric Almanac"
by Walt Kelly
(a Pogo chapter)

Gene Kelly

Gene William Lamont
ML baseball player, (1970s) later manager (1990s); one of the few players ever to have hit a home run in his first ML at bat.
Backup catcher, Detroit Tigers for about 4 years;
his Chicago White Sox of
1993 were a division champion, finally overcome
by the eventual World Series winning Toronto Blue Jays

Lamont Sanford son of Fred from Sanford and Son

Playing on 184:

//Lamont //

Lansing Lamont
ca. 1930--ca.2011
U. S. author ;
wrote Day of Trinity one of the earliest accounts of the
nuclear weapons research of the 1940s.

Lansing, Michigan

"Up in Michigan"
by Ernest Hemingway
classic short story.

Up in the Old Hotel

A History of Old Kinderhook from Aboriginal Days to the present time

by Edward Augustus Collier

Days of our Lives

The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives

by Plutarch

The Golden Greek

Grieche sucht Griechin / Once a Greek
by Friederich Duerrenmatt

Once Upon a Mattress

//once//

"O children, the latest descendants of old Cadmus, (tell me), once: What are these seats that you are sitting on in my presence?"
- - literal translation of the 1st lines of Sophoclesʻs Oedipus Rex

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Rex Harrison
British actor; a famous supporting role of his was Pope Julius II,
opposite Charlton Hestonʻs leading role of Leonardo da Vinci.

Jim Harrison

Jimy Wilson
ML baseball *coach, manager, 1970s--2000s: long-term coach,
Atlanta Braves, manager:
Toronto Bluejays and Boston Red Sox

* a coach in pro baseball is the equivalent of an assistant coach in football or basketball, equivalent of their "head coaches" being the "manager".

The Battle of Wilson's Creek

Creek Indians
aka (and more properly called?) Muskogee Indians; tribe in the Southeastern
U. S. from which they were
evicted in the 1830s, and
sent to the "Indian Territory" (later the Oklahoma Territory

Oklahoma Territory

Arizona, Alaska, Hawaiʻi
New Mexico, Oklahoma:
5 most recent U. S. territories which changed to statehood,
early, and mid-20th century.

North, to Alaska

Gwyn Griffith's
By the North Gate*

*Title was later used by Joyce Carol Oates

Watergate

Alicia Shepardʻs "Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of
Watergate"

Sam Shepard

Shepard Ginandes
psychologist, writer, folk singer* in Massachusetts,
Hawaiʻi, fl. 1950s--1970s

*Met singer.

Curly, Moe and Shep

William Carl "Bill" Moe

Star defenseman, ice hockey, New York Rangers, 1939-1953 One of the few American-born NHL players of his era. In the U. S. Hockey Hall of Fame

Bill Monroe

B. Lily, Everett Lily, Don Stover,
Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt
blue grass colleagues of (213)
1950s--1980s

Lily Potter

Nelson Potter
briefly a star NL relief pitcher,
Boston Braves 1948-49; pitched in the 1948 World Series

Lord Nelson

Byron Nelson
U. S golfer, winner of
many tournaments, 1930s--40s

Lord Byron

"Don Juan", "Childe Harold" and The Prisoner of Chillon" - - classic Byron poems.

Don Giovanni

"Donny Dubrow"
anti-hero of David Mametʻs classic drama American Buffalo

Donnie Darko

"Donnie Brasco"
identity taken on by Joseph Pistone, infiltrator of a crime organization;
book and classic movie of that title; (I donʻt know which preceded which.)

Donnybrook

donnybook
L T member who has listed over 2,000 titles

Donny Osmond

"Gilbert Osmond"
low-keyed villain,
an American-born expatriate,
in Henry James's
Portrait of a Lady

Gilbert and Sullivan

"Gilbert (Gil) Walker"
hero of the rather forgettable* movie "Tangier"
(ca. 1954). He was played by Jack Palance, co-starring with Corinne Calvet

*forgettable in spite of Calvet and Palance, not because of them.

Walker, Texas Ranger

Ted Williams
batting Hall of Famer, Boston Red Sox later manager; first manager of the Texas Rangers (231), he stayed on with the franchise for one year after their move from having been the Washington
Senators II.

Ted Kennedy

G. A. Studdert Kennedy
poet, religious prose writer

The Kennedy Honors

Patrick Kennedy (D, RI)
Rhode Island legislator in the U. S. House; for several terms, but he seems to have retired comparatively young.
Son of long term Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D MA).

St. Patrick

St. Francis of Assisi and St. Mary of the Annunciation:
parishes in Cambridge, MA bordering on St. Patrickʻs Parish.

Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 1757--1834

French general who fought on the U. S. side in the American Revolution

Grand Marquis

"le Grand Charley"
name given (usually by his enemies, sarcastically) to
General, later President
Charles De Gaulle

Travels with Charley

Graham Greeneʻs "Travels with my Aunt"

Auntie Mame

Eric Myersʻs "Uncle Mame: the Life of ("Auntie Mame" author) Patrick Dennis"

Eric the Red

"Yukon Eric"
Canadian-American college football player, later pro wrestler, 1940s--50s.
First pro wrestler to be televised in Canada.

Yukon gold

Robert W. Service
Canadian poet, author of
Songs of a Sourdough, The Spell of the Yukon and many others.

Full Service

// Full Service (251) //
by Will WEAVER
/
Earl Weaver
AL baseball manager, 1950s--70s, Baltimore Orioles

Dream Weaver

*Fiona MacLeodʻs Dominion of Dreams (published with Under the
Dark Star

*original name: William Sharp; lived 1855--1905

Old Dominion

". . . dominion over palm and pine"
- - poet/novelist Rudyard Kiplingʻs metaphor for the British Empire of his time, about which he expresses very mixed feelings.

The Palm Oil Miracle

Olof Palme
Swedish prime minister; murdered in 02/86. One of the few European chiefs of government ever to be assassinated. The perpetrator and the motivation are still
under debate.

Isle of Palms

Palms of non-fiction (?) and fiction:

Judith Hipskindʻs How to Read Palms and
William Faulknerʻs The Wild Palms

palm reader

// reader //

Foucault, Tolkien,
Chomsky, F. Lebowitz
Nader
Marx / Engels
Freud, F. King,
Hemingway

First 10 writers listed by LT
as being anthologized in a "Reader".

McGuffey's Reader

Leguinʻs "The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination"

Inside Maverick's: Portrait of a Monster Wave

Literary "Portraits"
Joyceʻs ". . .of the Artist as a Young Man"
and Thomasʻs ".. .of the Artist as a Young Dog".

The Picture of Dorian Grey

Joseph Heller's Picture This
novel on a Rembrandt portrait
of Aristotle which owes something
to I. F. Stone's non-fiction:
"The Trial of Socrates".

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Jonathan Aitken's "John Newton: from
Disgrace to Amazing Grace"

Olivia Newton John

Olivia Manning
author of The Balkan Trilogy, The Levant Trilogy, etc. (novels)

Payton Manning

Eli Manning
brother of (272); son of
once famous qb Archie Manning. Eli is a noted NFL
qb in his own right.

Eli's Coming Hide your heart girl...

"He can run, but he can't hide"
saying, attributed to Joe Louis
concerning his fast moving
opponent Billy Conn.

Billy Idol

Billy Leo Williams
Star Chicago Cubs (and briefly Oakland
A s) outfielder, 1959--1976

Leo Kerouac
Father of Jack Kerouac; the Kerouac character based on him is named "Emile Duluoz". A few writings by him are included in Kerouacʻs The Haunted Life ed. by Teichen

William Kiefer's (Pope) Leo XIII: a Light from heaven
a biography

The Pope's Ceiling

"ceiling" and "floor" on prices

These are (esp. "ceiling") the bases
of the economic system of mandatoy
Price Control. As a young bureaucrat,
during WW II,
future president Richard Nixon worked
in price control and developed a hatred
of it, but reluctantly turned to it for a
while during his presidency.

The Door in the Floor

"The Face on the Floor"
folk ballad, 1st half of
20th c. In practice, the title was usually lengthened (!) to
"The Face on the Bar Room Floor".

Cover Her Face

Face Value
by Ron Powers

Value Jet

The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
by Pico Iyer

Global Entry

Hortense Calisherʻs
"False Entry"

John Updikeʻs
"Seek my Face"

Wise Men Seek Him

"Wise Guys"
slang phrase meaning "Mafiosi", used in the dialogue of George V. Higginsʻs, et al., novels.

Guys and Dolls

Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra
celebrity actors, both of whom won an Academy Award (but not for "guys and Dolls"), the male co-leads of the movie version of (297) (ca. 1955); they were said to be "feuding" at the time,
but not on any "Guys and Dolls"-related issue.

Nancy Olson
Wisconsin-born movie actress (b.1928), 1950s--60s.

The Olson Twins

The Minnesota Twins
major league baseball franchise which moved to
Minnesotaʻs "Twin Cities" in
1957 from having been the
first Washington Senators franchise.

Devereuxʻs Twin of Ice

Ice Capades

Noel du Chien de Berger / Sheepdog in the Snow*
by Ben Baglio

*Literal translation of the title is "Sheepdogʻs Christmas"
("Berger" = "Shepherd")

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen

The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Day and other Tales by Primo Levi

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Gabriel Fieldingʻs Eight Days novel on North Africa in the Cold War era. "eight days" (huit jours) is the French expression for "one week".

Seven Days in May

7/24
short for 7 DAYS A WEEK
24 HOURS A DAY.

Seven against Thebes

Aeschylus Athenian Persian War veteran, and dramatistʻ author of (318)

Darius

Darius Jonathan*
Linguistics researcher,
South Sudan, Hawai'i, Massachusetts

*Know researcher

Jonathan Edwards angry preacher

Bruce Edwards
short-term major league catcher, Brooklyn Dodgers,
1940s

Edwin Edwards former gov of Louisiana

"Let the good times roll" / "Laissez les bons temps rouler" - - said to be 324ʻs motto.

"O Tempora! O Mores!" / "What times! What life-styles!" -- classic political exclamation by Cicero

Tempus Fugit

The Tempus Oral History Series*

*The "Voices..." that the series publishes seem to be primarily from the U. K., e.g. Aberystyth
Voices, Worcestershire Voices, etc.

Oral Roberts

Robin Roberts*
star major league pitcher, 1940s--60s, Philadelphia Phillies

*I removed the brackets, because clicking on this name only leads to an edition of The Wind in the WIllows

Rockin' Robin

"Rock around the Clock"

Clockwork Orange

Honey for the Bears,
Nothing like the Sun, and
Enderby

-- other titles by Anthony Burgess, author of (334). Burgess, b t w, contrary to most critics, did not consider (334) a major work of his.

Mad Anthony Wayne

Wayne State University,
Michigan

Ft. Wayne, Indiana home of WOWO radio.

The "Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons": early NBA franchise, (ca. 1940s), which is now the Detroit Pistons (For some reason they thought "Pistons" would be a good name for a Detroit team, and so retained it!)

Pistol Packing Pete

"Pistol Packinʻ Mama"
- - pop song, ca. 1943

Mama Mia

"Mia Carlotta"
pseudo-Italian American
comic poem, by T. A. Daly

"The Peopleʻs Princess"
designation awarded to Princess Diana after her
tragic death on 08/30/97.

The People's Pharmacy by Joe and Terry Graedon

"The Pharmacist"
classic* comedy short subject, 1930s, starring
W. C. Fields

*...and, i m o, very over-rated

The Green Pharmacy

Purple, Green, and Yellow
by Robert Munsch

Purple Haze

The Purple Land
by W. H. Hudson

Land Ho

"What HO! We have heard of
spear-Danes in days of yore."
1st line of a modern English translation of the Old English Beowulf:
/ "Waet! we gar-Dena in geor dagum. . ."

Angelina Jolie as Grendel's mom

ʻʻJolie Jacqueline"
song sung and danced by
the great* Leslie Caron
in "Glory Alley".

*She is, but the movie wasnʻt.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Robert Francis Kennedy
brother-in-law of (357);
WW II veteran, college football player (Harvard); attorney general, senator,
presidential candidate; assassinated in 06/68

The Ambassador Hotel

Henry Jamesʻs The Ambassadors*

*it has long been buried very deep in my TBR pile

The Wings of the Dove also Long buried in my TBR pile.

Wings
a one-word book title used by at least 18 authors, among them Steel, Yolen, and Loizeaux.

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